We are rolling out Drupal within our company. We have hundreds or thousands of ldap groups that are being brought into Drupal as roles using the ldap_integration module (http://drupal.org/project/ldap_integration). With that many roles, listing them all out and then having users find them is going to be a problem (performance or ease of use). This request is to re-create the functionality that you have to add an individual user for roles.
Example is: I created node 1234, I navigate to the grant tab, I start typing the name of the ldap group/role into "Enter group/role to search for role" query box, query returns role, hit enter, make the decision to give that role view, edit or delete permissions on that node.
Best case scenario is that there is a flag at the site level that defaults the behavior to how the existing module works (list out roles and query individual users) or the new behavior (query roles and query individual users).